Accepting submissions now!

Westwind accepts rolling submissions year-round of unpublished original works of fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, art, music, and more by UCLA students, faculty, alumni, and members of the greater Los Angeles community.

We currently publish two online journals in Fall and Winter and one annual print publication in Spring.

The submission period for Spring 2018 is currently open. If your submissions fall outside of the submission period, they will automatically roll over to the following reading period.

Brief additional information you would like us to know about the piece(s). (OPTIONAL)

We aim to respond to all submissions in a timely manner–you can pester us if we’re slow. We will not respond with a form letter and we will comment on work whenever possible. We sadly do not offer payment.

Specific Genre Requirements

Fiction:

We accept any number of individual works, but we do ask that the work(s) do not exceed 3500 words collectively (c.15 pages, double spaced). Excerpts from longer prose pieces are acceptable if self-contained.

Poetry:

Art:

Send up to five digital images of artwork of any kind, in any medium. Alternative, nontraditional, and mixed-media formats fall under this category as well. A good resource for work in alternative formats is arras.net.